Three cheers for ignoring COVID-19 precautions at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
No masks are way more fun
I attended the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo and, a week later, an event at Bass Hall. The difference in pandemic response is worth noting.
The rodeo is about the most unsterile atmosphere you can find for a public event, with animal pens and hay. People sat close to each other. A handful of people wore masks. There were lots of eating and drinking.
A week later at Bass Hall, a more sterile environment, you had to wear a mask and stand in the cold to show your vaccine card. Announcements to keep your mask on were frequently made.
I am fully vaccinated and boosted, and I don’t mind wearing a mask if required. But from my view: Yay rodeo, boo Bass Hall.
- Dave Smith, Azle
I know I want to be done
Interesting, or strange, that Friday’s front-page story “COVID: Texans are so done with it (But it likely isn’t done with us)” tells us how “done” people are with COVID-19, and then we get six more pages inside about COVID-19.
So, now are we “done” with the subject? I sure hope so.
- Wayne Brice, Fort Worth
Don’t forget being frozen out
We all lucked out this last freeze, but let’s never forget the 2021 “snowmageddon.” The sclerotic Texas Republican regime, now in power for more than a quarter of a century, stood not with the majority of Texans but with wealthy speculators who benefit from having the power grid walled off from the rest of the country. Hundreds died, and if you were like me, you spent way too much time dealing with contractors and insurance agents.
I will never forget how the Republicans screwed up our grid — especially at election time.
- Ken Pardue, Fort Worth
Granger shifts in political winds
I am frustrated with Rep. Kay Granger. She voted no to raising the federal debt ceiling with no plan to cover current obligations. She cites Democrats’ new spending as the rationale for voting no, but during the Trump presidency, Republicans added trillions to the deficit and boasted about the spending.
Granger worries about fiscal responsibility only when a Republican is not president. Granger’s priority is reelection, not her constituents. She needs to go.
- Jeffrey Casteen, North Richland Hills
That’s one law broken
In response to a Tuesday letter to the editor (9A) stating that those here illegally commit far fewer crimes than U.S. citizens, I would like to educate the author on the law. It is against the law to cross the border illegally. Each and every one of these here illegally should be prosecuted.
- Bill McDaniel, Arlington
What Goldberg still doesn’t get
Within all the uproar about Whoopi Goldberg being chastised and punished for saying that the Holocaust was about “man’s inhumanity toward man,” (Feb. 6, 5C, “Goldberg got it all wrong on the Holocaust — and learned”) what nobody seems to want to bring up is the real crux of her belief: Racism is about skin tone.
She is one of many who seem to believe that they dictate what is or is not racism. The fact that someone has been subjected to racism doesn’t mean that person has the final say.
Yes, the most obvious way most racists discriminate is by color. But as she is finally finding out, she doesn’t get to have the final word on what racism looks like.
- S.R. DeWees, Alvarado